For custom program development, Progent can supply programming experts to produce business applications in areas such as eCommerce, web site design, Microsoft Business Solutions products such as Microsoft Dynamics GP, and custom management reports produced by Crystal Reports, Access Report, or FRx Reports. Progent's experts can use Microsoft IIS to build company-specific eCommerce solutions powered by Microsoft ASP.NET. In addition, Progent can provide expertise in a wide range of custom program development environments including SQL Server and Delphi. For made-to-order e-Commerce software, Progent also offers expertise in custom Access, custom Microsoft Visual Basic, custom Excel, and any other specialized programming powered by any Microsoft development platform.
Progent's Ekahau-certified Wi-Fi experts can help you to plan, install, optimize, manage and debug a Wi-Fi solution adapted to your facilities. Progent offers online or onsite expertise for Ekahau Pro for predictive Wi-Fi design and Ekahau Sidekick for on-premises RF signal analysis.
Les Kent has a 35-year history of successful network integration, corporate management, marketing, and operations. He has demonstrated a knack for creating sophisticated IT solutions during his time as as a network designer, application developer, project manager, deployment expert, and troubleshooter for small companies, new ventures, and global enterprises.
Progent can deliver a wide range of affordable support services to assist you to deploy, configure, repair, and manage workstations and laptops based on Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS and OS X, or popular versions of Linux. Progent can provide on-premises or online assistance for single machines or laptops or work with your business to design and carry out a company-wide migration to new or revised OS software and applications. Progent can also provide consultants and technical workers to assist you to prepare for and complete an office relocation or merger designed to produce minimal interruption to your business.
System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager is part of Microsoft's System Center 2016 family of network management products and is designed to offer a unified mechanism for deploying and managing virtualized datacenters across hybrid environments that can incorporate private clouds and Microsoft Azure resources. Progent's SCVMM 2016 consultants can assist organizations of any size with any aspect of building, deploying, and managing a SCVMM 2016 ecosystem. Progent can assess your virtualization topology, show you how to upgrade smoothly from older releases of Virtual Machine Manager, develop processes for building and installing VMs and hosts, design high-availability compute and storage clusters, integrate your private cloud infrastructure with public cloud services, configure virtual switches, develop and debug PowerShell scripts, and assist you to evaluate the strategic advantages of the latest capabilities like Storage Replica and Host Guardian Service. Progent's certified hypervisor experts offer advanced Windows Hyper-V consulting and VMware ESXi support.
Progent's consultants can help you to design and implement an efficient move from onsite Active Directory to cloud-hosted Microsoft Entra ID (formerly called Azure Actve Directory) or to a hybrid solution that uses Microsoft Entra Domain Services and Microsoft Entra Connect to unify identity and access management for both on-premises and cloud resources.
Progent provides organizations of any size professional consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN products from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies including Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, Fortinet, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to create a comprehensive security strategy and select the right products from a variety of suppliers to support your security goals while sticking within your budget limits.
Progent's certified professionals can assist you to assess the business value of Windows Server 2012 R2 for your organization, develop pilot environments and migration plans, tune your network infrastructure for local, multi-site, private or public cloud-based, and hybrid datacenters, educate your IT support staff, create an enterprise-wide security plan, automate IT management, help with creating applications, and generate and test a disaster recovery/business continuity plan.
Progent's proven ransomware recovery consultants can help you to restore an IT network breached by a ransomware crypto-worm like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Conti or Egregor.
Progent has been delivering SharePoint consulting services since the first product was released more than two decades ago, and Progent has the scope of technical know-how to assist businesses of all sizes to design and implement a SharePoint Server 2013 deployment and create SharePoint Server 2013 apps that add substantial business value to your information network. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can help your company to evaluate the business advantages of migrating to SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online from older releases of SharePoint or from another collaboration solution; decide whether an on-premises, online or hybrid deployment is most sensible for your busi9ness; and select the most appropriate version of SharePoint 2013 for your purposes. Progent offers comprehensive project management support or can assist in specific jobs related to your SharePoint 2013 deployment.
Progent's certified IT experts offer Windows Server 2016 migration consulting services to help businesses of all sizes to design and implement an efficient move to Windows Server 2016 and Windows Hyper-V 2016 based on a local, cloud, or hybrid architecture. Progent can assist you to evaluate the business value of Windows Server 2016 for your enterprise and can help you with any aspect of designing, configuring, managing or troubleshooting your Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016 ecosystem. Progent can assist your organization to benefit from the many new disaster recovery and security capabilities of Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016 such as Windows Containers, Shielded Virtual Machines to protect against compromised administrators, Credential Guard, Just In Time (JIT) Privileged Access Management, Virtual Machine software load, Storage Replica for zero-data-loss disaster recovery, plus workgroup and multi-domain failover clusters.
Progent provides national urgent phone support and consulting services for companies who operate UNIX, Linux, or Sun Solaris environments or whose information systems feature a combination of UNIX/Linux and Microsoft Windows products. Online IT help offers maximum leverage for your IT dollar by extending client efficiency and shortening the hours billed for computer repair services. Sophisticated online access tools and experienced service specialists and consultants allow Progent to solve the majority of IT issues without squandering time and expense by traveling to your site. In most of situations your IT problems can be remediated over the phone or through a combination of phone help and remote network analysis. Progent can make available Cisco certified CCIE network experts and CISSP and ISSAP certified security specialists to help you with the most challenging network problems.
Progent offers the part-time assistance of a seasoned Chief Information Officer who can provide strategic direction to assist your company select and maintain network solutions to meet your present situation and that can serve as a firm basis for your growth. Progent's part-time Chief Information Officer consulting services offer financial leverage to companies trying to optimize the benefits from their network investment but who are unable or hesitant to take on one more high-level manager to their full-time staff. Because Progent is vendor-agnostic, with a sizable staff of consultants certified to support all major OS platforms and connectivity technologies plus a wide range and business applications, Progent is in an ideal situation to offer objective recommendations as well as expert technical help for creating information solutions that fit the special requirements of your organization.
Stealth penetration testing is a key part of any overall network security strategy. Progent's security professionals can perform thorough intrusion tests without the knowledge of your organization's internal IT staff. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether existing security monitoring systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event history monitoring are correctly configured and actively observed. Progent can implement ongoing autonomous penetration testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, stolen credentials, skipped patches, and unsound product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-front attacks typical of the latest strains of ransomware.
Progent's certified security experts can run NodeZero-powered threat assessments to make sure your security defense systems and policies are properly configured and effective.
Progent's UNIX platform consulting services offer small companies and developers assistance with administering and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris environments that coexist with Microsoft-powered technology. Progent can give your organization access to UNIX consultants, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISM certification. This wide range of expertise offers you a convenient single source to help you build and maintain a protected and robust cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that supports UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by integrating Windows with major variants of UNIX including macOS and OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, BSD, SCO and SGI/Irix or major Linux platforms such as RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian-GNU and Slackware.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to evaluate the business value of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 for your organization, develop test environments and rollout plans, optimize your network infrastructure for local, multi-site, private or public cloud-based, and hybrid environments, train your IT support staff, develop a corporate-wide security strategy, streamline network administration, help with application development, and generate and validate a disaster recovery/business continuity plan.
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help you design, document, carry out, administer, and repair a system-wide move to 64-bit server and desktop OS software and applications. Progent can help you pilot your 64-bit environment to verify that it supports all of the key 32-bit programs which you intend to retain as well as the latest 64-bit editions of applications you wish to install.
If your company runs a UNIX, Linux, or Sun Solaris environment or a multi-OS IT environment, Progent's CISA and CISSP-premier security specialists can assist your whole enterprise in a wide array of security areas such as security administration practices, security architecture and strategies, access control systems and techniques, software development security, business processes security, physical security, communications, network and web security, and disaster recovery planning. CISM and ISSAP define the core competencies and international standards of performance that information security managers are required to master. These accreditations offer IT management the assurance that consultants who have achieved their CISA or CISSP certification have the background and theory to deliver world-class security management and consulting services.
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 includes significant enhancements in key areas such as speed, availability, compliance, and cloud integration. Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is the first release of Microsoft SQL Server that includes in-memory capability that works seamlessly across all types of applications including Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), enterprise data warehousing, and data analytics. Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2014 consultants can deliver cost-effective online and on-premises services such as planning, deployment, management, remediation, and software development services to help organizations of any size to realize fast return from their SQL Server 2014 deployment.
Progent's team of expert programmers, relational database designers, and program managers can assist enterprise clients to carry out development projects for Windows, Linux/UNIX, or Web applications. Progent's co-sourcing services include access to veteran program managers for high-level planning and project co-ordination or Progent can help clients fill in expertise gaps by offering database architects and programmers experienced in developing RDBMS applications based on SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL. Progent's SharePoint Server experts can assist businesses to incorporate SharePoint with other applications such as Microsoft SQL and Excel to create data-driven intranets and portal sites. Progent also offers experience with multiple web development tools and can help businesses to build, expand, troubleshoot, or migrate web applications to take advantage of the most current web technology.
Progent's data protection experts can help you to design, deploy and administer a backupup/restore solution built around MSP360 Backup technology to protect your assets residing on any major public cloud. Progent can provide monitoring and remote management to prevent data loss caused by user mistakes, software flaws, ill-intentioned insiders, and malware assaults like ransomware.
Progent can help you to design, deploy and administer a backupup/restore solution built around MSP360 Backup software to protect your assets residing on any leading public cloud. Progent offers monitoring and management to protect against data loss caused by human mistakes, software errors, ill-intentioned insiders, and malware attacks like ransomware.
Migration Firm Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST)
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 delivers indispensable, familiar tools to IT professionals as well as to network users, reducing the difficulty of designing, integrating, managing, and accessing company data and analytical applications on platforms ranging from handheld devices to enterprise information networks. The complexity and integration requirements of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 call for an IT consultant with hands-on experience and broad knowledge in planning and deploying data-driven, end-to-end business technology solutions. The knowledge and experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with an average of over 10 years of background supporting Microsoft technology, assures you success in planning, deploying and supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2005 solutions that are well integrated with the Microsoft .NET platform.
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of all sizes a versatile and affordable alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your virtual and physical; servers, endpoints scanners, network infrastructure appliances such as routers and Wi-Fi APs, and IoT devices like alarms and health monitors.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is an integrated collection of APIs that enables Amazon sellers to improve the efficiency of their operations by automating crucial sales functions including listings, orders, payments, fulfillment, and finances. By tapping into Amazon's vast online selling environment and automating their sales, merchants can broaden their market, lower their operating costs, improve response time to customers, and increase their profits. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service developers can work with your development staff and provide programming, workflow integration, project management support, and training so you can shorten development time and speed up your return on investment.
Progent's certified IT experts can provide Windows Server 2016 migration consulting to assist businesses of any size to plan and implement a smooth move to Windows Server 2016 and Windows Hyper-V 2016 using a local, cloud-centric, or hybrid deployment model. Progent can help you to evaluate the business value of Windows Server 2016 for your enterprise and can help you with any aspect of designing, deploying, administering or troubleshooting your Windows Server 2016 and Windows Hyper-V 2016 solution. Progent can assist your organization to take advantage of the many new high-availability and security capabilities of Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016 such as Windows Containers, Shielded Virtual Machines to protect against compromised administrators, Credential Guard and Remote Credential Guard, Just In Time (JIT) Privileged Access Management, Virtual Machine software load, Storage Replica, plus workgroup and multi-domain clusters.
Cisco's security and offsite connectivity technology for small to mid-size companies offer a full array of manageable security hardware and software to let you safeguard your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network line includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and VPN solutions. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven specialists with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and CCNP qualifications who can assist your company to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that align best with your business objectives.
Progent's Citrix-certified consultants can help you to evaluate the business benefits of XenServer and other Citrix products, and can help your IT organization to plan, validate, execute, troubleshoot, and maintain a Citrix XenServer installation. Progent can also assess your current XenServer deployment and show you how to optimize resource utilization, responsiveness, security and compliance, uptime, and disaster recovery.
Progent is an authorized Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can plan, install, and manage an implementation of 365 Total Backup to safeguard your Microsoft 365 user and group mailboxes, files stored within your organization's OneDrive Accounts and SharePoint Document Libraries, user and group Teams Chats, plus files on Windows-powered endpoints.
Progent can help companies of any size to move any part of their computing infrastructure to the Microsoft Azure cloud. This can simplify network administration and lower hardware expense. Azure offers a comprehensive library of cloud services and Progent can help you to evaluate the benefits and restrictions of various cloud computing models supported by Azure. Progent can show you how to manage cloud-based or hybrid cloud and on-premises applications and resources and make sure you sidestep the typical errors small organizations make when migrating to a public cloud. Progent can show you how to configure VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, use cloud storage with Azure Storage, handle authentication with Azure Active Directory, and create backup-and-recovery mechanisms with Azure Backup. Progent can also assist you to configure firewalls and IPsec VPN tunnels and to integrate Apple iOS devices and Android smartphones and tablets.
Progent can provide a wide array of economical remote and onsite support services to assist you to install, manage, and debug workstations and mobile devices based on Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS/OS X, iOS, Android, or Linux.
Progent's Juniper Networks-authorized network engineer can help you to design and implement Juniper Firewall and VPN platforms, optimize and support your infrastructure, and migrate efficiently from discontinued equipment to the latest versions. Progent's Junos OS engineers can provide support for Juniper's flagship network control software to enable you to simplify the management and strengthen the security of your Juniper VPN devices and firewalls. Progent also has broad experience maintaining Juniper's NetScreen OS and ScreenOS operating system productss and can assist you manage environments that incorporate a combination of Juniper's OS platforms.
Progent's SonicWall firewall consultants can show you how to deploy, maintain, and tune SonicWall firewall/VPN devices including the newer SonicWall TZ and NSa families of firewalls and the legacy SonicWall PRO 2040 products. Progent's CISM and GIAC-certified network security consultants can show you how to incorporate SonicWall firewalls into an end-to-end security solution and build security into your business processes.
Progent can assist your business to evaluate the wealth of subscription options offered with Microsoft 365, previously called Office 365, and configure your network with Microsoft 365 in a way that delivers top business value. Progent supports multi-platform networks that include Windows, macOS or OS X, and Linux operating systems. Progent can also help your business to create and maintain hybrid solutions that transparently integrate local and cloud products and services.
Network Security Consultant Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA)